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  <h3>Concordia's new art installation unites Faculties of Fine Arts and ENCS</h3>
  <p>December 2011 </p>
  <p>High on the northwest wall, ground floor of Concordia&rsquo;s Engineering, Computer   Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex (EV Building) hangs a new art   installation alongside a literal fragment from the past. The latter &mdash;   two severed stone lintels from the former D&rsquo;Arcy McGee house &mdash; depicts a row of   shamrocks, perhaps reflecting the Irish roots of the assassinated father of   Confederation. The former &mdash; a pair of beautifully patterned textiles &mdash;   constitutes The Generative Design Project, a collaboration of members of the   university&rsquo;s Faculties of Fine Arts and Engineering and Computer   Science.<BR>
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    The long, colourful textiles, called jacquards after the   inventor of the Jacquard loom, feature contemporary designs of geometric motifs   found in African Kuba textiles and 16th century Islamic Zillij mosaics. Completed in November 2011, after nine years of research, development and   production, the project brings together the work of scientists and artists   alike. Spearheaded by Principal Investigator Cheryl Kolak Dudek (Studio Arts)   along with Sudhir Mudur (Computer Science), Lydia Sharman (Design), Fred Szabo   (Mathematics) and Thomas Fevens (Computer Science), significant contributions   were also made by students Eric Hortop (Communication Studies/Mathematics,   2003-07) and Sushil Bhakar (Computer Science, 2004-06), among many others.&nbsp;</p>
  <p>Full story <a href="../../pageswww.concordia.ca/now/what-we-do/arts/20111128/art-meets-science-in-newest-art-installation.php">here</a> </p>
  <h3><img src="http://www.cse.concordia.ca/images/newsandevents/20111129-tapestry2.jpg" width="450" height="274"></h3>
  <p style="font-style: italic; font-size: 12px">The Generative Design Project now on disply in the EV building </p>
  <hr />
  <h3>Graduate Seminar in University Teaching Winter 2011-2012</h3>
  <p>December 2011 </p>
  <p>This  seminar series in university teaching will prepare graduate students for an  academic teaching career. The estimated time commitment is 32 hours in-class  with approximately 10 hours for preparation of readings and assignments.  Participants receive a certificate on successful completion of all of the  requirements. There will be a modest charge for materials. Participation is  limited to 25 students per section per semester. <strong> </strong></p>
  <p>Further details <a href="http://www.cse.concordia.ca/documents/other documents/GSUT.Ad.W2011-2012-1.pdf">here</a></p>
  <hr />
  <h3>CSE&rsquo;s Holiday Food Drive for Sun Youth</h3>
  <p>December 2011 </p>
  <p>The  department of Computer Science &amp; Software Engineering invites all ENCS  employees to help make this a memorable holiday for hundreds of disadvantaged  families in Montreal. Kindly drop  off any non perishable food items at the reception area of EV 3.139, anytime  between 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. between November 28th and December 16th.</p>
  <p>Each year,  hundreds of families benefit from food baskets distributed during the holidays  by community organizations such as Sun Youth. The  organization gives out food hampers to approximately 18,000 people throughout  the year, and with each passing year, the need for food assistance continues to  grow. The mission of Sun Youth is to provide a highly personalized  service and programs to improve the current situation of its clientele through  education, awareness and material assistance. Sun Youth is committed to the entire community, without  discrimination by a dedicated commitment and an acute awareness of the  continuing challenges.<br />
      <br />
    The CSE department thanks you in advance for any and all contributions.</p>
  <hr />
  <h3>CSE Doctoral candidate honoured at international conference </h3>
  <p>November 2011 </p>
  <p>Khoa Luu, doctoral student in the Department of Computer  Science and Software Engineering, currently carrying out his research at Carnegie  Mellon University, has achieved outstanding recognition for his work at the  recent International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2011) in Washington  DC, Oct. 10-13. </p>
  <p>The event is one of the world's most selective  conferences on the evolving subject of biometrics, with only 10% of papers and  23% of posters submitted being accepted. Luu not only had two submissions  accepted to the conference papers, his oral paper was nominated for the  competition's Best Paper Award, and his poster entitled "Investigating Age  Invariant Face Recognition Based on Periocular Biometrics" (pictured below),  won the Best Poster Award for this category. </p>
  <p>Full story <a href="http://www.encs.concordia.ca/news-and-events/entry.php?a=2011/11/cse-doctoral-candidate-honoured-at-international-conference.php">here</a></p>
  <hr />
  <h3>Brigitte Jaumard's &quot;Green ICTs discussed in Le Devoir</h3>
  <p>October 2011 </p>
  <p>On October 3rd and 4th, CSE Professor Brigitte Jaumard co-organized a colloquiem entitled &quot;Information and Communication Technologies: Are They Green?&quot; held at Concordia University. This colloquiem was part of the 24th edition of the Entretiens Jacques Cartier symposium held from September 29 to October 7 in   Montreal, Quebec City and Ottawa, bringing together researchers and   industry leaders preoccupied with contemporary issues under the broad   themes of economic, socio-political, scientific and cultural challenges.   </p>
  <p>Montreal's Le Devoir newspaper covered the event <a href="http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/actualites-en-societe/331508/information-et-communications-technologie-verte-dites-vous">here</a>. </p>
  <hr />
  <h3>Brigitte Jaumard wins best paper award at RNDM 2011 </h3>
  <p>October 2011 </p>
  <p>Two of Computer Science &amp; Software Engineering Professor, Brigitte Jaumard's, papers were recently nominated for the best paper award at the 3rd International Workshop on Reliable Networks Design &amp; Modelind (RNDM) held in Budapest. Jaumard's paper titled &quot;A New Flow Formulation for FIPP p-cycle Protection subject to Multiple Link Failures,&quot; co-authored by PhD candidate Hai Anh Hoang, won the award. Another of Jaumard's papers titled &quot;Maximizing Access to IT Services on Resilient Optical Grids,&quot; co-authored by PhD candidate Ali Shaikh, was nominated. </p>
  <p>RNDM 2011 was the third meeting in the series of RNDM workshops.   Following the success of the first two events that took place in St. Petersburg (2009) and Moscow (2010),   accordingly, RNDM 2011 is aimed at attracting world-class participants   from both academia and industry working in the area of reliable networks   design and modeling.</p>
  <p>Further details <a href="http://www.rndm.pl/">here</a> </p>
  <p><img src="http://www.cse.concordia.ca/documents/other documents/jaumardsmall.jpg" width="436" height="266"></p>
  <p style="font-style: italic">Hai Anh Hoang (right) accepting best paper award at RNDM 2011 </p>
  <hr />
  <h3>First Annual CSE Mascot Challenge, September 23, 2011 </h3>
  <p>On September 23, 2011, first-year Computer Science &amp; Software Engineering undergraduate students crowded together in the EV atrium to build mascots out of discarded computer parts generously donated by AITS. Many students, faculty members, and curious onlookers dropped by throughout the morning to cheer them on. </p>
  <p>A  group of distinguished judges assembled in the afternoon to select a   winner. However, due to tough competition, a tie was   announced. The members of the two winning teams were each awarded $200 gift   certificates to the Concordia bookstore for their mascots, who were named "Duck   Tape" and "Angry Bird." Runners up received $50 gift certificates.<br />
    <br />
    <img src="http://www.cse.concordia.ca/documents/other documents/mascot group.jpg" width="436" height="317"><br />
    <span style="font-style: italic">Distinguished judges assemble 
    to evaluate the students' mascots</span> </p>
  <p>The   event, supported by the Office of the Vice Provost of   Teaching and learning, was organized by Nancy Acemian, Lecturer in the   Department of Computer Science &amp; Software Engineering as well as the   Faculty's new First Year Director. She hopes that this year's Mascot Challenge will   be the first of many. </p>
  <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/encs-concordia/sets/72157627757500216/">See</a> a photo slideshow of the competition. <br />
    <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/book/978-0-85729-276-6"></a> </p>
  <hr />
  <h3>Recent publications by Va&#154ek Chv&aacute;tal </h3>
  <p>September 2011 </p>
  <p>A collection of articles entitled &quot;Combinatorial Optimization: Methods and Applications&quot; edited by <br />
    Va&#154ek Chv&aacute;tal was published as Volume 31 of the <span style="font-style: italic">NATO Science for Peace and Security Series  - D: Information and  Communication Security. </span><a href="http://www.iospress.cn/loadtop/load.php?isbn=9781607507178"></a></p>
  <p>This book is a collection of six articles arising from the meeting of  the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) &ldquo;Combinatorial Optimization:  Methods and Applications&rdquo;, which was held at the University of Montreal  in June 2006. This ASI consisted of seven series of five one-hour  lectures and one series of four one-hour lectures. It was attended by  some sixty students of graduate or postdoctoral level from fifteen  countries worldwide. Topics include: integer and mixed integer  programming, facility location, branching on split disjunctions,  convexity in combinatorial optimization, and VLSI design.</p>
  <p><a href="http://www.iospress.cn/loadtop/load.php?isbn=9781607507178">Further details</a></p>
  <hr />
  <h3>Professor Eusebius Doedel presented with honorary award</h3>
  <p>September 2011 </p>
  <p>Eusebius Doedel 
    received an honourary award in recognition of  his significant contributions to the computational dynamics area from a  subdivision of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a society  founded in 1880 with the goal of promoting the art, science and practice of  mechanical and multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences to the diverse  communities throughout the world.</p>
  <p>The award was officially presented at the Eight ASME  International Conference on Multi-Body Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and  Control, held in Washington DC August 28-31 2011 and attended by leading  researchers in the field. Contratulations, Professor Doedel! </p>
  <p><a href="http://www.encs.concordia.ca/news-and-events/entry.php?a=2011/09/cse-professor-presented-with-honorary-award.php">Further details</a></p>
  <hr />
  <h3>CENPARMI granted University-recognized status from Senate </h3>
  <p>The Senate's Research Committee met on April 20, 2011 and unanimously agreed to recommend to Senate that the Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (CENPARMI) be granted University-recognized status. Committee members were especially impressed with the amount of external funding that CENPARMI has been able to secure over the years, the high level of research productivity and training of graduate students, the impressive publication record and the strong industrial partnership collaborations. As a result, CENPARMI has officially been granted University-recognized status as per the Policy on Research Units (VPRGS-8). This policy is adminstered on behalf of Senate by the Office of the Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies (OVPRGS).</p>
  <p>For further information about CENPARMI, please visit their <a href="http://www.cenparmi.concordia.ca/">website</a>. <br />
    <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/book/978-0-85729-276-6"></a> </p>
  <hr />
  <h3>High Performance Computing Symposium, June 15-17, 2011, UQAM  </h3>
  <p>HPCS (High Performance Computing Symposium) is a multidisciplinary  conference that focuses on research involving High Performance  Computing and its application. Attended by Canadian and international  experts and renowned researchers in the sciences, all areas of  engineering, the applied sciences, medicine and life sciences,  mathematics, the humanities and social sciences, it is Canada&rsquo;s  pre-eminent forum for HPC.</p>
  <p>During the course of the symposium, high profile members of the  international research community will present on ongoing projects which  use HPC as a research tool. In the past, papers presented have included  topics from fields such as Parallel Programming, Molecular  Interactions, Biophysics, Environmental Research, Theoretical /  Computational Chemistry, Genetic Programming, and Bio-Mechanics. </p>
  <p>Further details <a href="http://2011.hpcs.ca/">here</a>.<br />
    <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/book/978-0-85729-276-6"></a> </p>
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  <h3>Recently published book by Dr. Vangalur Alagar</h3>
  <p>The second edition of the book 'Specification of Software Systems (V.S Alagar and K. Periyasamy)' has just been published by Springer. This book, first published in 1998 under `Graduate Texts in Computer <br />
    Science Series (Eds. David Gries and Fred. B. Schneider)' has been warmly received by the academic community. The scope of the book and its intended audience can be found <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/book/978-0-85729-276-6">here</a>. <br />
    <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/book/978-0-85729-276-6"></a> </p>
  <hr />
  <h3>Dr. Brigitte Jaumard featured in FQRNT's journal Genial </h3>
  <p>Dr. Brigitte Jaumard's research in optimized telecommunication network has been profiled in the recent issue of Fonds quebecois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies (FQRNT) <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/book/978-0-85729-276-6"></a>journal Genial. Read the article <a href="http://www.fqrnt.gouv.qc.ca/medias/bulletin/genial/2011/genial_35.html#CEN">here</a>. (in French only) <br />
  <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/book/978-0-85729-276-6"></a> </p>
  <hr />
  <h3>Va&scaron;ek Chvatal to speak at upcoming SUMM 2011 </h3>
  <p>Va&scaron;ek Chvatal will give a lecture entitled &quot;Discrete Mathematics of Paul Erd&#337;s&quot; on Sunday, February 6, 2011 at 13:30 as part of <span style="font-weight: bold">Seminars in Undergraduate Mathematics in Montreal (SUMM) 2011</span>.</p>
  <p>Abstract: Paul Erd&#337;s (1913 &ndash; 1996) was one of the greatest  mathematicians of the twentieth century. He made pre-eminent  contributions to number theory, probability theory, real and complex  analysis, discrete geometry, approximation theory, and set theory; some  say that he founded the field of discrete mathematics. This talk will  be about some of his results in number theory, geometry, Ramsey theory,  extremal combinatorial problems, and graph theory.</p>
  <p>Chvatal is the Canada Research Chair in Combinatorial Optimization and Professor in Concordia University's Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering.</p>
  <p>Further details about SUMM 2011 available <a href="http://summ2011.math.uqam.ca/speakers/?lang=en">here</a>.</p>
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  <p>The following PhD  students from the Computer Science &amp; Software  Engineering department are the 2010-2011 Fond quebecois de la  recherche sur la nature et les technologies (FQRNT) award recipients: </p>
  <p>Rui Chen, Aleksandar Kircanski, Wen Ming Liu, Kaustubha Mendhurwar, Abu Sayeed Md. Sohail </p>
  <p>This award supports students in their advancement of knowledge in the   natu.ral sciences, mathematical sciences and engineering.</p>
  <p><a href="http://www.fqrnt.gouv.qc.ca/">http://www.fqrnt.gouv.qc.ca/</a></p>
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